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My point is we rank these teams like BYU and SD State in the top 10.. for what? Insane record, can't deny them that.. but I can look at the opponents who don't have primetime talent. ACC is down, and I haven't ever liked the Pac 10 really but still you put alot of stock into a team that has a couple impressive wins compared to a billion other teams playing in tougher conferences and with more pressure.

BYU doesn't really matchup well with Purdue. Jajuan Johnson would be a handful for them as would Moore and Barlow. They play good team ball but I think would struggle with superior teams with athleticism.

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Good game Derza. What the hell has happened to Corey Fisher? He was brutal shooting the ball.

Dwight Hardy with 34 points. He has a legit chance of being the Big East Player of the Year.

I was there...it was painful. Awful transition defense, the absolute killer was giving up offensive rebounds and rebounding in general...37-23. Any time they had a chance to make a good run they'd force a missed shot...and then St. Johns would get the rebound and score. Tough to watch the seniors go out that way. Hardy's 34 was quiet because he did so much from the stripe late in the game.

Fish is what he is, he's a really talented guard but he's best served as an energy guy off the bench like he was for the most part during our Final Four run. The interior D of St. Johns made a huge difference as well as he and Wayns couldn't really get anything going driving (that's where he excels) and we don't run in transition anymore. But I'd still contend that he should be a 6th man and he just hasn't fit in as a point guard.

The other thing is, for whatever reason we're running a slowdown offense and that really doesn't work well with the team that we've got. Pena has a decent midrange jumper, Cheek and Bell are inconsistent shooting it off the bench, Armwood's offense consists of dunks and layups, Fisher is an inconsistent shooter, Wayns really doesn't shoot well, and Stokes is a great shooter. But when your lineup for the most part consists of one awesome shooter, a PG who shoots inconsistently, a PG who can't shoot, and two interior players but a bunch of good athletes you want to get up and down the floor. Unfortunately they don't do that for whatever reason, and it leads to bad offense (though transition D and rebounding were at least as much to blame if not more).